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Kilpatrick Townsend’s LitSmart® E-Discovery Team is pleased to welcome five new e-discovery experts to its team: Senior E-Discovery Attorneys Virginia Ring and Jim Hefferan; Senior Project Managers Phil Moon and Dave Welch; and Senior Analyst Shazell Bush. The award-winning LitSmart® E-Discovery Team has now grown to 26 permanent employees stationed in offices across the US and plans to continue to grow over the next year.

So, you’re deep in the weeds of your latest e-discovery project for an important client and things are going smoothly. An email now arrives from the review team flagged as urgent and with the tag line, “Take a look at this document, it’s got some pretty sensitive info - that isn't relevant - and I’m pretty sure the client won’t be happy sending this out.” Just redact it, right? At least one court disagrees.

E-Discovery project managers provide a valuable skill set that keeps litigation discovery on-track. As a result, they can have a huge effect on the level of success of their clients' projects. How can we increase the odds that the effect is positive? A project manager can maximize his organizational impact by adopting five simple habits.

The United States Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in the landmark case of United States v. Microsoft Corp. This matter presents the Court with an opportunity to establish new precedent in the field of international e-discovery. An amicus brief recently filed by some of the country’s leading e-discovery practitioners and professors, including Kilpatrick Townsend’s Global Discovery Counsel, Craig D. Cannon, urges the Court to use this occasion to provide further guidance as to the appropriate considerations of international comity that must be weighed when faced with a cross-border discovery dispute.

There was a time when the only data you needed to collect in response to a discovery request was corporate email. Fast forward to present day. Employees are conducting business with smartphones, via social media and with the assistance of wearable technology. As a result, responding to e-discovery requests has become increasingly challenging.

In the modern workplace, companies are beset with a multitude of challenges regarding ownership and use of devices such as laptops, mobile phones, tablets, and others, and the information on or accessed by them. It has become increasingly common for companies to follow a model called BYOD, or “Bring Your Own Device,” where an employee purchases their own device and the company pays for either all or partial service. While there are clear advantages to this type of business model, there are drawbacks that should be considered when drafting company policies.

ATLANTA (October 25) - Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today that the firm’s LitSmart® E-Discovery Team has been named a finalist for the Relativity Innovation Award for Best Law Firm Solution, for the third year in a row. This prestigious honor is a true testament to Kilpatrick Townsend's commitment to client service and innovation.

WINSTON-SALEM (October 11) --Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today that its rebranded LitSmart® E-DiscoveryTeam recently opened its state-of-the-art LitSmart® E-Discovery Review Center located on the firm’s unique Winston-Salem campus. The team also launched a new, forward-thinking website to better convey the value of the firm’s e-discovery services and provide clients with easy access to the latest thought leadership in the e-discovery arena: www.KTLitSmart.com.

With the opening of the LitSmart® E-Discovery Review Center in Winston-Salem, the award-winning LitSmart E-Discovery Team is able to centrally manage document reviews on litigation taking place across the country while providing e-discovery services at highly-competitive rates in the national market. Here we detail a sample of the team's 100+ successful document reviews.